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Maryland's Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Laws: Their Impact on Incarceration, State Resources and Communities of Color
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Maryland's Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Laws: Their Impact on Incarceration, State Resources and Communities of Color
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Apr. 07, 2007
ANNOTATION: Reasons why Maryland's mandatory minimum drug laws hinder the state's goal of "treatment, not incarceration" for drug-involved offenders are explained. This report is divided into eight parts: introduction; background -- what mandatory minimum are; what Maryland's mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws are; how many people are affected by these laws; communities of color are most impacted by these laws; cost to the states -- fiscal impact estimates and cost effectiveness; the impact on public safety by these laws and resultant increased use of incarceration; and recommendations.